More than 50,000 people have left Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) over the past four years.
This assessment of the Human Rights Center "Remembrance" is provided by the Tajik service of Radio Aztec. The organization's experts believe that the reason is not only economic difficulties, but also the consequences of the 2021-2022 protests and the repression that followed them.
Memory expert Olga Abramenko admitted that the figure may raise questions, and there is little data on migration from Tajikistan and Russia. However, she considers the assessment to be reliable.
According to her, independent studies show a sharp increase in immigration to Russia at the end of 2021 and in 2022, which means that this increase had external causes.